See All That You Can Be: JBBBS Welcomes Liz Sunneby

On Wednesday, January 21st, Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters invited its Big Sisters in the community, activity and school plus programs to attend a workshop put on by award winning ”tween” author, Liz Suneby.

The room was packed with Big Sisters for this great event which aided our volunteers in working with their “Littles” in seeing the broad range of careers and opportunities available to them. Liz showed our “Bigs” the best way to use her book See What You Can Be including ways to share with “Littles” what their personality suggested about future careers. Are you a “Hands on Girl” or a “Shaker-Upper”?

Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters and Liz Suneby have another workshop in store for back again for all of our community, activity and school plus Big Sisters and their “Littles”. Participants do not need to have attended the past event to attend this event.

During this workshop the two of you will have the opportunity to interact in fun and creative ways with other Big and Little Sisters while meeting a panel of professional women to hear about what they loved as girls, what they do today, and how their dreams lead them to their professional success.  Every Little Sister will get her own copy of the book, See What You Can Be for the “Big” and “Little” to use together in the future, and another book to give to another female friend!

Immediately following the event, JBBBS will host a pizza party for all those in attendance!

For more information please email Alanna at Alanna@jbbbs.org or ask your social worker.

We look forward to seeing you there to “See What You Can Be”!

Some of the JBBBS Big Sisters in attendance take a moment to show off thier new "See What You Can Be" books

JBBBS Recongized by Mass Mentoring

Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters was recongized as an Inaugural Member of the Mass Mentoring Partnership Quality-Based program for mentoring agencies across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

At a ceremony held at the State House in Boston on January 22nd, 2009, Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters was recognized with 14 other organizations during a celebration of National Mentoring Month.

Inaugural Members of the program were instrumental in creating standards of high quality mentoring to children. JBBBS President/CEO Harvey Lowell, PhD and Vice President of Programs and Services Lisa Cohen LICSW, were instrumental in working with the Mass Mentoring Partnership in creating standards that help recognize organizations that provide high program quality.

January is National Mentoring Month

 

January is National Mentoring Month, a month to reflect on the great work of volunteers, and to promote youth mentoring. The annual event has occurred since January 2002 and was originally spearheaded through the Harvard School of Public Health and MENTOR. Now in its seventh full year, President George W. Bush has officially proclaimed January as National Mentoring Month.

 

Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters is proud to recognize its volunteers who truly have enriched the lives of children, their families and adults with disabilities by acting as a caring adult friend. They play basketball, go to the movies, and eat ice cream. They paint pottery, go bowling, and cheer on the Red Sox. Most importantly, they smile, they listen and they care. Our agency could not be entering its 90^th year of servicing the Jewish community without the compassion, enthusiasm and friendship that our volunteers provide. We are forever grateful.